What would you use for a dream build ?
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unstableryan
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- Beautiful Okanagan Valley
it weighs a pound, it's awesome looking and it's like 700 bucks? I know there are lighter scopes. My Bausch and lomb 3000 2-7 weighs less, but I'd give up a few oz for double the zoom.
maybe GRS?
Dream rifle
Already have my 2 dream/ideal hunting rifles.
A ruger compact magnum stainless, chambered in 300 rcm, outfitted with a McMillan stock and topped with a Burris signature safari 1.75-5x32.
The other is my ruger no. 1, chambered in 280 rem and topped with a Leopold vx2 2-7x33.
Both are excellent handy, fairly light rifles, perfectly suited for our hunting areas in central Ontario where there is a mixture of dense bush with the odd open meadow where you might get a 4-500 yard shot. The weather decides which one I take out for day.
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Already have my 2 dream/ideal hunting rifles.
A ruger compact magnum stainless, chambered in 300 rcm, outfitted with a McMillan stock and topped with a Burris signature safari 1.75-5x32.
The other is my ruger no. 1, chambered in 280 rem and topped with a Leopold vx2 2-7x33.
Both are excellent handy, fairly light rifles, perfectly suited for our hunting areas in central Ontario where there is a mixture of dense bush with the odd open meadow where you might get a 4-500 yard shot. The weather decides which one I take out for day.
I could spend a lot of time looking at the English gunmakers, the Austrian and German ones and the Italian ones. I`m thinking Rigby Rising bite, built with hammers, in 450-400NE and 6.5x57R, probably a Fanzoj hammer singleshot in 6.5x57R, maybe a Beretta hammer in 12 and 20, wouldn`t mind an H&H underlever Rook rifle in something like a 327Federal and maybe even a 44mag. And probably a Steven 44-1/2 in 32-40win.
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Realistically something like this:
https://www.maynardsfineart.com/auction-lot/kimber-8400-montana-bolt-action-rifle_7CB4AD8974
with the 3300 dollars in savings I could afford to set the sights back and trim the barrel to 20 inches. Trijicon 1-6
Or an octagonal barrel contour on a m98 action in a walnut stock, maybe some sort of rib.
I imagine if I did a build in that price in a more classic style I would sink quite a bit of money into things like sights, swivels, grip caps, case hardening etc. The money would not go nearly as far as I would like if I took this route but day dreaming is fun.
If I have to conform to thread rules, a kimber short action, or m7 stainless with a sporter contour 20 inch barrel in 358 win.
https://www.maynardsfineart.com/auction-lot/kimber-8400-montana-bolt-action-rifle_7CB4AD8974
with the 3300 dollars in savings I could afford to set the sights back and trim the barrel to 20 inches. Trijicon 1-6
Or an octagonal barrel contour on a m98 action in a walnut stock, maybe some sort of rib.
I imagine if I did a build in that price in a more classic style I would sink quite a bit of money into things like sights, swivels, grip caps, case hardening etc. The money would not go nearly as far as I would like if I took this route but day dreaming is fun.
If I have to conform to thread rules, a kimber short action, or m7 stainless with a sporter contour 20 inch barrel in 358 win.
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That rifle was a steal, the sight work alone cost $4-500. I did a similar build on my 338 WM Montana, except mine had a 21 inch barrel and a banded ramp sight. God knows why I sold it.
That's gorgeous.
My uses would lean toward a ultralight LH mountain rig. And yeah, $4k just wouldn't cut it.
I think a gent that guided for Ardent posted his rifle in a thread, I got the idea from him. I don't recall his username.
I'm tempted to do the same with my 30-06 Montana, maybe with a pop up peepsight if I could ever locate one. That's pretty much my dream rifle.
I'm tempted to do the same with my 30-06 Montana, maybe with a pop up peepsight if I could ever locate one. That's pretty much my dream rifle.
